Find any mines, Vladimir?
Last night (click here) there were already fewer emergency situations and fewer conflicts in Crimea. I hope that in the coming days a way will be found to solve everything through negotiations.
It was a good idea to clear the Lebanon border. The Syrian borders are a problem. It is where the region destabilizes. Hezbollah is a problem. Assad needs to have his religious leaders spread the word as to how to stabilize things.
The Mideast is primarily organized around it's religious leaders at this point and it the strength in the region in order to stop the violence.
And don't tell me the religious leaders can't stop the violence. I witnessed it in Iraq. A town in complete chaos was mobilized at the singular words of their holy men. Muslims, especially the Shi'ites, are used to being obedient to their religious leaders. The Shi'ites have experienced diffuse authority for a long time. They know when their authorities speak they need to listen and adhere to their words.
The Iraq Shi'ites still exist because of their religious leaders. Saddam targeted them in order to end the well established Shi'ite community in Iraq. There is lots and lots of evidence to prove the power of pray in the Mideast.
BEIRUT
...Syrian journalists (click here) who were taken on a state-organised tour of government-held areas around Yabroud on Tuesday heard gunfire and saw jets flying overhead as troops fought on the edges of the town.
The offensive is part of a military campaign by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, backed by Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah militants, to drive rebels from the border region and secure territory linking Assad's coastal bastions with Damascus.
The fighting has frequently spilled across the ill-defined frontier between the two countries. The mainly Sunni Muslim rebels have targeted Shi'ite Muslim towns inside Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's support for Assad, while Sunni areas sympathetic to the rebels have also come under fire.
